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An Outline of the Republic

A Novel

By: Siddhartha Deb

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Intrigued by a disturbing photograph of a woman, a young journalist in Calcutta embarks on a quest to learn the story behind the violent incident captured on film -- a strange odyssey that leads him to a volatile remote corner of India mired in civil strife and sustained by timber, drugs, and guns. Yet the truth he hopes to uncover is as uncertain as the mysterious woman he seeks, smoldering dangerously on the border between illusion and reality.

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Harper Collins

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006050157X

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The Light at the End of the World

By: Siddhartha Deb

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The Light at the End of the World

By: Siddhartha Deb

Connecting India’s tumultuous 19th and 20th centuries to its distant past and its potentially apocalyptic future, this sweeping tale of rebellion, courage, and brutality reinvents fiction for our time. Delhi, the near future: Bibi, a low-ranking employee of a global consulting firm, is tasked with finding a man long thought to be dead but who now appears to be the source of a vast collection of documents. The trove purports to reveal the secrets of the Indian government, including detention centers, mutated creatures, engineered viruses, experimental weapons, and alien wrecks discovered in remote mountain areas. Bhopal, 1984: an assassin tracks his prey through an Indian city that will shortly be the site of the worst industrial disaster in the history of the world. Calcutta, 1947: a veterinary student’s life and work connect him to an ancient Vedic aircraft that might stave off genocide. And in 1859, a British soldier rides with his detachment to the Himalayas in search of the last surviving leader of an anti-colonial rebellion. These timelines interweave to form a kaleidoscopic, epic novel in which each protagonist must come to terms with the buried truths of their times as well as with the parallel universe that connects them all, through automatons, spirits, spacecraft, and aliens. The Light at the End of the World, Siddhartha Deb’s first novel in fifteen years, is a magisterial work of shifting forms, expanding the possibilities of fiction while bringing to life the India of our times.

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Soho Press

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1641294671

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The Beautiful and the Damned

A Portrait of the New India

By: Siddhartha Deb

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The Beautiful and the Damned

A Portrait of the New India

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The Beautiful and the Damned presents an affecting, incisive portrait of the vast, fascinating, and incongruent country that is globalized India. Siddhartha Deb grew up in a remote town in the northeastern hills of India and made his way to the United States via a fellowship at Columbia. Six years after leaving home, he returned as an undercover reporter for The Guardian, working at a call center in Delhi in 2004, a time when globalization was fast proceeding and Thomas L. Friedman declared the world flat. Deb's experience interviewing the call-center staff led him to undertake this book and travel throughout the subcontinent. The Beautiful and the Damned examines India's many contradictions through various individual and extraordinary perspectives. With lyrical and commanding prose, Deb introduces the reader to an unforgettable group of Indians, including a Gatsby-like mogul in Delhi whose hobby is producing big-budget gangster films that no one sees; a wiry, dusty farmer named Gopeti whose village is plagued by suicides and was the epicenter of a riot; and a sad-eyed waitress named Esther who has set aside her dual degrees in biochemistry and botany to serve Coca-Cola to arms dealers at an upscale hotel called Shangri La. Like no other writer, Deb humanizes the post-globalization experience—its advantages, failures, and absurdities. India is a country where you take a nap and someone has stolen your job, where you buy a BMW but still have to idle for cows crossing your path. A personal, narrative work of journalism and cultural analysis in the same vein as Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family and V. S. Naipaul's India series, The Beautiful and the Damned is an important and incisive work. A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429995181

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9781429995184

The Beautiful and the Damned

Life in the New India

By: Siddhartha Deb

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Life in the New India

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Siddhartha Deb grew up in a remote town in the northeastern hills of India and made his way to the United States via a fellowship at Columbia. Six years after leaving home, he returned as an undercover reporter for The Guardian, working at a call center in Delhi in 2004, a time when globalization was fast proceeding and Thomas L. Friedman declared the world flat. Deb's experience interviewing the call-center staff led him to undertake this book and travel throughout the subcontinent. The Beautiful and the Damned examines India's many contradictions through various individual and extraordinary perspectives. With lyrical and commanding prose, Deb introduces the reader to an unforgettable group of Indians, including a Gatsby-like mogul in Delhi whose hobby is producing big-budget gangster films that no one sees; a wiry, dusty farmer named Gopeti whose village is plagued by suicides and was the epicenter of a riot; and a sad-eyed waitress named Esther who has set aside her dual degrees in biochemistry and botany to serve Coca-Cola to arms dealers at an upscale hotel called Shangri La. Like no other writer, Deb humanizes the post-globalization experience--its advantages, failures, and absurdities. India is a country where you take a nap and someone has stolen your job, where you buy a BMW but still have to idle for cows crossing your path. Available for the first time with the controversial and previously unpublished first chapter, The Beautiful and the Damned is as important and incisive today as it was when it was first published.

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Penguin UK

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0141970197

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9780141970196

The Point of Return

A Novel

By: Siddhartha Deb

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The Point of Return

A Novel

By: Siddhartha Deb

Set in the remote, northeastern hills of India, The point of return revolves around the father-son relationship of a willful, curious boy, Babu, and Doctor Dam, an enigmatic product of British colonial rule and Nehruvian nationalism. Told in reverse chronological order, the novel examines an India where the ideals that brought freedom from colonial rule are beginning to crack under the pressure of new rebellions and conflicts. For Dr. Dam and Babu, this has meant living as strangers in the same home, puzzled and resentful, tied only by blood. As the father grows weary and old and the son tries to understand him, clashes between ethnic groups in their small town show them to be strangers to their country as well. Before long, Babu finds himself embarking on a great journey, an odyssey through the memories of his father, his family, and his nation.

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Harper Collins

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0060501537

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9780060501532

The Beautiful and the Damned

A Portrait of the New India

By: Siddhartha Deb

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A Portrait of the New India

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The Light at the End of the World

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Twilight Prisoners

The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India

By: Siddhartha Deb

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Twilight Prisoners

The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India

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An incisive, lyrical, and deeply reported account of India’s descent into authoritarianism. Traveling across India, interviewing Hindu zealots, armed insurgents, jailed dissidents, and politicians and thinkers from across the political spectrum, Siddhartha Deb reveals a country in which forces old and new have aligned to endanger democracy. The result is an absorbing—and disturbing—portrait. India has become a religious fundamentalist dystopia, one depicted here with a novelist’s precise language and eye for detail. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party—a formation explicitly drawing on European fascism—has deftly exploited modern technologies, the media, and market forces to launch a relentless campaign on minorities, women, dissenters, and the poor. Deb profiles these people, as well as those fighting back, including writers, scholars, and journalists. Twilight Prisoners sounds the alarm now that the world’s largest democracy is under threat in ways that echo the fissures in the United States, United Kingdom, and so-called democracies the world over.

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Haymarket Books

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9798888901076

Soft Computing for Image and Multimedia Data Processing

By: Siddhartha Bhattacharyya,Ujjwal Maulik

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Soft Computing for Image and Multimedia Data Processing

By: Siddhartha Bhattacharyya,Ujjwal Maulik

Proper analysis of image and multimedia data requires efficient extraction and segmentation techniques. Among the many computational intelligence approaches, the soft computing paradigm is best equipped with several tools and techniques that incorporate intelligent concepts and principles. This book is dedicated to object extraction, image segmentation, and edge detection using soft computing techniques with extensive real-life application to image and multimedia data. The authors start with a comprehensive tutorial on the basics of brain structure and learning, and then the key soft computing techniques, including evolutionary computation, neural networks, fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic, and rough sets. They then present seven chapters that detail the application of representative techniques to complex image processing tasks such as image recognition, lighting control, target tracking, object extraction, and edge detection. These chapters follow a structured approach with detailed explanations of the problems, solutions, results, and conclusions. This is both a standalone textbook for graduates in computer science, electrical engineering, system science, and information technology, and a reference for researchers and engineers engaged with pattern recognition, image processing, and soft computing.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642402550

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9783642402555

Quantum Inspired Meta-heuristics for Image Analysis

By: Sandip Dey,Siddhartha Bhattacharyya,Ujjwal Maulik

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Quantum Inspired Meta-heuristics for Image Analysis

By: Sandip Dey,Siddhartha Bhattacharyya,Ujjwal Maulik

Introduces quantum inspired techniques for image analysis for pure and true gray scale/color images in a single/multi-objective environment This book will entice readers to design efficient meta-heuristics for image analysis in the quantum domain. It introduces them to the essence of quantum computing paradigm, its features, and properties, and elaborates on the fundamentals of different meta-heuristics and their application to image analysis. As a result, it will pave the way for designing and developing quantum computing inspired meta-heuristics to be applied to image analysis. Quantum Inspired Meta-heuristics for Image Analysis begins with a brief summary on image segmentation, quantum computing, and optimization. It also highlights a few relevant applications of the quantum based computing algorithms, meta-heuristics approach, and several thresholding algorithms in vogue. Next, it discusses a review of image analysis before moving on to an overview of six popular meta-heuristics and their algorithms and pseudo-codes. Subsequent chapters look at quantum inspired meta-heuristics for bi-level and gray scale multi-level image thresholding; quantum behaved meta-heuristics for true color multi-level image thresholding; and quantum inspired multi-objective algorithms for gray scale multi-level image thresholding. Each chapter concludes with a summary and sample questions. Provides in-depth analysis of quantum mechanical principles Offers comprehensive review of image analysis Analyzes different state-of-the-art image thresholding approaches Detailed current, popular standard meta-heuristics in use today Guides readers step by step in the build-up of quantum inspired meta-heuristics Includes a plethora of real life case studies and applications Features statistical test analysis of the performances of the quantum inspired meta-heuristics vis-à-vis their conventional counterparts Quantum Inspired Meta-heuristics for Image Analysis is an excellent source of information for anyone working with or learning quantum inspired meta-heuristics for image analysis.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119488788

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9781119488781

Quantum Inspired Computational Intelligence

Research and Applications

By: Siddhartha Bhattacharyya,Ujjwal Maulik,Paramartha Dutta

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Quantum Inspired Computational Intelligence

Research and Applications

By: Siddhartha Bhattacharyya,Ujjwal Maulik,Paramartha Dutta

Quantum Inspired Computational Intelligence: Research and Applications explores the latest quantum computational intelligence approaches, initiatives, and applications in computing, engineering, science, and business. The book explores this emerging field of research that applies principles of quantum mechanics to develop more efficient and robust intelligent systems. Conventional computational intelligence—or soft computing—is conjoined with quantum computing to achieve this objective. The models covered can be applied to any endeavor which handles complex and meaningful information. - Brings together quantum computing with computational intelligence to achieve enhanced performance and robust solutions - Includes numerous case studies, tools, and technologies to apply the concepts to real world practice - Provides the missing link between the research and practice

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Morgan Kaufmann

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0128044373

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9780128044377

Hybrid Metaheuristics: Research And Applications

By: Siddhartha Bhattacharyya

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Hybrid Metaheuristics: Research And Applications

By: Siddhartha Bhattacharyya

A metaheuristic is a higher-level procedure designed to select a partial search algorithm that may lead to a good solution to an optimization problem, especially with incomplete or imperfect information.This unique compendium focuses on the insights of hybrid metaheuristics. It illustrates the recent researches on evolving novel hybrid metaheuristic algorithms, and prominently highlights its diverse application areas. As such, the book helps readers to grasp the essentials of hybrid metaheuristics and to address real world problems.The must-have volume serves as an inspiring read for professionals, researchers, academics and graduate students in the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics and machine learning.Related Link(s)

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World Scientific

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9813270241

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9789813270244

Rare Isotope Beams

Concepts and Techniques

By: Alok Chakrabarti,Vaishali Naik,Siddhartha Dechoudhury

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Rare Isotope Beams

Concepts and Techniques

By: Alok Chakrabarti,Vaishali Naik,Siddhartha Dechoudhury

Rare Isotope Beams (RIBs) are ion beams of exotic radioactive nuclei. The study of these nuclei is key to understanding the limits of nuclear existence, nucleo-synthesis in such violent stellar sites as supernovae and merging neutron stars, and the fundamental symmetries of nature. These nuclei also provide a unique probe to study condensed matter and many of them are potentially new radioisotopes for more effective medical diagnostics and therapy. Rare Isotope Beams: Concepts and Techniques gives an up-to-date overview of all these aspects of RIB science in a single volume containing the scientific motivation, production techniques, experimental techniques for studying exotic nuclei, methods used in condensed matter research, and medical applications. The emphasis throughout is on concepts to facilitate understanding of the essence of each topic in this diverse and cross-disciplinary field involving nuclear physics, astrophysics, and particle accelerators. A brief description of major RIB facilities is also presented. Exotic nuclei are difficult to produce in enough numbers and their production involves different nuclear reaction routes and a wide range of advanced technologies, which are presented in a comprehensive manner. Experimental techniques used to study exotic nuclei are provided with examples highlighting the intricate nature of such experiments. Another unique feature is the open-ended nature of the discussions, bringing out the future challenges and possibilities in this evolving field. The book offers an excellent overview of concepts and techniques involved in RIB science for new researchers entering the field as well as professionals.

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CRC Press

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1498788793

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Hybrid Soft Computing for Multilevel Image and Data Segmentation

By: Sourav De,Siddhartha Bhattacharyya,Susanta Chakraborty,Paramartha Dutta

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Hybrid Soft Computing for Multilevel Image and Data Segmentation

By: Sourav De,Siddhartha Bhattacharyya,Susanta Chakraborty,Paramartha Dutta

This book explains efficient solutions for segmenting the intensity levels of different types of multilevel images. The authors present hybrid soft computing techniques, which have advantages over conventional soft computing solutions as they incorporate data heterogeneity into the clustering/segmentation procedures. This is a useful introduction and reference for researchers and graduate students of computer science and electronics engineering, particularly in the domains of image processing and computational intelligence.

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Springer

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331947524X

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The Beautiful & the Damned

By: Siddhartha Deb

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The Beautiful & the Damned

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A personal, narrative work of journalism and cultural analysis, The beautiful and the damned examines India's many contradictions through five individual perspectives."--Publisher's description.

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0143418963

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Book's by Siddhartha Deb

An Outline of the Republic

An Outline of the Republic

The Light at the End of the World

The Light at the End of the World

The Beautiful and the Damned

The Beautiful and the Damned

The Beautiful and the Damned

The Beautiful and the Damned

The Point of Return

The Point of Return

The Beautiful and the Damned

The Beautiful and the Damned

The Light at the End of the World

The Light at the End of the World

Twilight Prisoners

Twilight Prisoners

Soft Computing for Image and Multimedia Data Processing

Soft Computing for Image and Multimedia Data Processing

Quantum Inspired Meta-heuristics for Image Analysis

Quantum Inspired Meta-heuristics for Image Analysis

Quantum Inspired Computational Intelligence

Quantum Inspired Computational Intelligence

Hybrid Metaheuristics: Research And Applications

Hybrid Metaheuristics: Research And Applications

Rare Isotope Beams

Rare Isotope Beams

Hybrid Soft Computing for Multilevel Image and Data Segmentation

Hybrid Soft Computing for Multilevel Image and Data Segmentation

The Beautiful & the Damned

The Beautiful & the Damned

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